Evaluation of Patient Morbidity and Root Coverage Outcomes of VISTA Versus CAF in Treating Gingival Recession

Conditions

Esthetic Zone

Keywords

recession , gingival recession, connective tissue graft, coronally advanced flap, patient morbidity

Brief summary

To evaluate and compare Vestibular Incision Subperiosteal Tunnel Access (VISTA) technique,with connective tissue graft; versus Coronally Advanced Flap (CAF) technique;with connective tissue graft, in treating gingival recession in esthetic zone. Patients and Methods: Thirty patients, with Miller class I or class II gingival recession, were included in the current study, with age range from 18 to 55 years. Defects were treated using either VISTA combined with connective tissue graft technique, or CAF combined with connective tissue technique. Post-operative discomfort was evaluated using the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) to assess patient morbidity. At baseline, 3, 6 and 9 months, clinical parameters were assessed; Probing Depth (PD), Clinical Attachment Level (CAL), Gingival recession Height (GH), Keratinized Tissue Height (KTH), while Complete and Mean Root Coverage (CRC, MRC) were recorded after nine months. Results: The present study revealed that VISTA showed higher significant difference in pain.VISTA also showed a more reduction in PD, CAL, GH as well as KTH than that of CAF with no significant difference between either of the groups.

Detailed description

To evaluate and compare Vestibular Incision Subperiosteal Tunnel Access (VISTA) technique,with connective tissue graft; versus Coronally Advanced Flap (CAF) technique;with connective tissue graft, in treating gingival recession in esthetic zone. Patients and Methods: Thirty patients, with Miller class I or class II gingival recession, were included in the current study, with age range from 18 to 55 years. Defects were treated using either VISTA combined with connective tissue graft technique, or CAF combined with connective tissue technique. Post-operative discomfort was evaluated using the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) to assess patient morbidity. At baseline, 3, 6 and 9 months, clinical parameters were assessed; Probing Depth (PD), Clinical Attachment Level (CAL), Gingival recession Height (GH), Keratinized Tissue Height (KTH), while Complete and Mean Root Coverage (CRC, MRC) were recorded after nine months. Results: The present study revealed that VISTA showed higher significant difference in pain.VISTA also showed a more reduction in PD, CAL, GH as well as KTH than that of CAF with no significant difference between either of the groups. Conclusions: Based on the results of the current study, it can be concluded that both techniques allow improvement in root coverage with no significant differences between them, while VISTA technique showed more pain scores by the VAS than that of CAF technique.

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Interventions

PROCEDUREVestibular Subperiosteal Tunnel Access vista

CAF procedures were performed (Split-Full-Split flap), following the anesthetic agent, the sulcular incision was performed by a full thickness vertical incision till the muccogingival junction• Split thickness releasing incision was made at the flap base with full thickness flap reflection till the muccogingival junction.

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)

Masking description

The surgeon performing the surgical technique as well as the patient cannot be blinded because the two surgical procedures are different and recognizable by both the surgeon and the patient after being well informed

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 55 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Age between 18- 55 years * No sexual discrepancy * Medically free * Good oral hygeine * Sound teeth with single (measuring ≥ 2 mm) or Multiple (measuring ≥ 1 mm) * Class I or II gingival recession defects and adequate amount of keratinized tissue (3mm width).

Exclusion criteria

* Patients on anticoagulants, antiplatelets, or glucocorticoids. * Pregnant females or lactating female patients * Smoking patients. * Patients with parafunctional habits. * Tooth extraction in the surgical sites, active periodontal disease or history of previous surgery in the same area.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Pain Score	1-10 days	Visual Analogue Scale to measure pain from (0-10) with 0 (no pain) and 10 (worst pain)

Countries

Egypt

Outcome results

None listed